Illustration: At the edge of a harvested sweet-potato field, a farmer kneels beside a row of large produce crates. Almost all are empty; one contains only a handful of thin, undersized potatoes. Across the field, many freshly opened planting mounds show that the search has already covered a substantial area.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ作さく

fusaku

poor harvest, crop failure

Example sentences

今年ことしは米作べいさくは不作ふさくだった。
The rice crop was scanty this year.
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洪水こうずいのため米こめは不作ふさくだった。
The rice crop was poor, owing to the floods.
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不作ふさくで食料しょくりょうがひどく不足ふそくした。
The bad harvest caused massive food shortages.
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Kanji in 不作

不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
作make; productionOnサク・サKunつくる・つくり

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